Data Collection

When shifting our focus from Europe to North America, particularly the United States, a striking contrast emerges in the eCommerce Maturity Index. While Canada aligns closely with the top performers of Europe, exhibiting similar levels of performance across various dimensions, the United States stands out in two key areas – Reviewing and Investigating.

While Europe stands united in striving to provide an excellent eCommerce experience for shoppers around the continent, not all countries perform equally well across all dimensions of the eCommerce Maturity Index. The performance drop is extremely visible in the Investigating dimension, which evaluates how well eCommerce websites provide critical background information about their offerings.

When examining the top-ranking countries on the eCommerce Maturity Index, it becomes clear that Europeans are setting the global standard in creating the best experience for their users. Marketplaces in countries such as Belgium, Lithuania, Germany, Sweden, and Spain are at the forefront, demonstrating their ability to provide the most intuitive and user-friendly eCommerce experience.

Dynamic pricing, a strategy where prices of products or services are adjusted in real-time based on demand, supply, competitor pricing, and other factors, has become a popular practice in modern-day eCommerce.

Our recently published Dynamic Pricing Index dives deeper into the global landscape of this practice, revealing some intriguing trends. Interestingly, the leading countries in dynamic pricing are not from the traditionally dominant markets of Europe or North America but from the Asian continent. Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and India have emerged as the top practitioners of dynamic pricing, with scores well above the global average.

While European countries dominate the eCommerce Maturity Index by providing the most holistic eCommerce experience, they’re less advanced in adjusting their pricing strategies according to the buyer’s demand, peak shopping days, and competitors.

In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase "data is the new oil." He pointed out that "much like oil, data holds significant value," meaning that big data’s potential remains untapped without proper structure and refinement. Over the next 18 years, more companies started collecting large amounts of data to get a bird’s eye view of the competition, unlock new growth opportunities, and explore the ever-changing user behavior. And in the AI era, more businesses are exploring the ability to employ robots to do their time-wasting data collection tasks.

Online marketplaces are beloved for offering everything from items we don’t need to treasures we didn’t know we were missing. For music lovers and collectors, Discogs stands out as the go-to destination – think of it as the IMDb of music records. Whether you're analyzing vinyl market trends, tracking the value of rare releases, or building a personal archive, Discogs is an unmatched resource. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to scrape Discogs using Python, step by step, to unlock the data behind the music.

Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI), an international consortium of web data aggregation business leaders whose co-founder is Decodo, has recently published an insightful Q&A session with our CEO, Vytautas Savickas.

Standards are a means to clear and define communication between people and things in the world. For example, the human language, USB sockets on computers, or the fact that you must add cereal before pouring milk. When it comes to computer applications and systems, one standard stands out above the rest as the most popular choice for developers – XML (eXtensible Markup Language). In this article, we’ll explore how you can parse data from XML files using Python’s built-in libraries, see the best methods to do so, and understand the importance of effectively reading information.

In this article, we’ll explore the different kinds of errors and exceptions, what causes them, and provide solutions to solving them. No more headaches and cursing your code until it gets scared and starts working – master the language of Python to understand precisely what it wants from you.

Does web scraping take too much of your and your team's time? Struggling to balance efficiency with cost-effectiveness? Well, we’ve got great news for all you tech enthusiasts! Decodo hosted an exclusive webinar: “Web Scraping Efficiently: Save Your Team’s Time and Costs”.

By registering via the link above, you can replay the webinar for free. From seamless tool integration to savvy scraping practices, join us and improve your team’s approach by boosting productivity and cutting costs.

Facebook is like a dinosaur that’s yet to go extinct. Founded in 2004, it’s still part of 1.9 billion people’s daily lives worldwide. And do you know what disrupts daily life like nothing else? Technical glitches. One such frustrating issue that Facebook users sometimes encounter is the Session Expired error.

In this blog post, let’s shed light on this Facebook error: what does it mean, what causes it, and what are some practical solutions to resolve it, whether you’re just browsing Facebook or scraping its data.

Look no further, buddy. A powerful tool for gathering public data is already here. Say hi to our newly launched product – Site Unblocker!

Wanna scrape web data but keep running into obstacles? Collecting web data in 2023 sure requires extensive knowledge. Websites are armed with smart antibots, few suspicious moves, and an IP ban is knocking on your door. That's why Decodo is hosting a free webinar filled with tips about successful scraping in 2023

Folks, we have some exciting news for you today. We just released the first dedicated Social Media Scraping API in the market. Woot woot!

This all-in-one solution is designed to simplify real-time and on-demand data collection at scale. Yup, no worries about managing proxies, several scrapers, and parsers – we handle it all for you, so you can focus on the data insights you seek.

SERP (Search Engine Results Page) analysis involves examining search engine results for specific keywords to understand website rankings. It helps identify the content, format, and optimization strategies used by top-ranking pages and uncovers opportunities for improving rankings. In this blog post, we’re exploring what SERP analysis is, how to conduct it, and how it can help you.

Nowadays, web scraping is essential for any business interested in gaining a competitive edge. It allows quick and efficient data extraction from a variety of sources and acts as an integral step toward advanced business and marketing strategies.

If done responsibly, web scraping rarely leads to any issues. But if you don’t follow data scraping best practices, you become more likely to get blocked. Thus, we’re here to share with you practical ways to avoid blocks while scraping Google.

At Decodo, we’re always cookin’ up new ways to make scraping a breeze. Starting from eCommerce Scraping API to our most recent creation — Web scraping API. And don’t let anyone tell you that proxies and scraping are as complicated as rocket science. It could actually be a rather simple (and sometimes even fun) process!

But let’s be real, even the top guns extracting data from eCommerce giants like Amazon might get those pesky CAPTCHAs or worse — IP ban. Luckily, we’re offering a complete toolbox that will help you hop around the geo-restrictions, avoid errors & bans and get that sweet 100% success rate with ready-to-digest data.